Re: Octave in Universities

[Quentin Spencer]

Steve C. Thompson wrote:

> On 10 Mar 06 08:02AM, Larry Blodgett wrote:
>  
>
> > I was under the impression that there were numerous
> > universities using octave.
> >    
>
> I use GNU Octave here at the University of California,
> San Diego!  From my thesis, page 211:
>
>  ``All numerical work, including the computer simulations, was
>  done with GNU Octave.''
>
> Steve
>  

I also did my entire thesis using octave, but I was one of the few 
people (despite my best efforts) in my department who even knew about 
octave. In my field (electrical engineering), most students are 
introduced to Matlab in an undergraduate course on signal processing. If 
professors were informed about octave, they could promote octave as an 
alternative--particularly to students who want to do work on their own 
computers without buying the crippled "student edition" of Matlab.

-Quentin



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